BenjaminKaplanMDMPH(He/Him)

Resident Physician, PGY-3

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PGY-3 at UNC Family Medicine, providing care in English and Spanish with a focus in LGBTQ+ health. My research focuses on forming community partnerships and addressing health disparities through creative and narrative-based techniques.

Class of 2000 Kaiser Permanente Excellence in Teaching Award University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, 2022
United States Public Health Service Award University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, 2021
Best Leadership Project Award, Family Medicine Leads - Emerging Leader Institute American Academy of Family Physicians, 2021
Pisacano Scholar Pisacano Leadership Foundation, 2020
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PubMed

16 citations
Life after Stroke in an Urban Minority Population: A Photovoice Project
Revathi Balakrishnan, Benjamin Kaplan, Rennie Negron, Kezhen Fei, Judith Z. Goldfinger
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2017-03-11
26 citations
Looking Back to Move Forward: First-Year Medical Students' Meta-Reflections on Their Narrative Portfolio Writings.
Hetty Cunningham, Delphine S Taylor, Urmi A. Desai, Samuel C. Quiah, Benjamin Kaplan
Academic Medicine. 2017-12-01
Improving Family Medicine Residents' Provision of Gender-Affirming Care.
Riley Smith, Benjamin Kaplan
Family Medicine. 2024-02-01

Journal Articles

Access, Equity, and Neutral Space: Telehealth beyond the Pandemic
Kaplan B, Annals of Family Medicine, 1/1/2021
Does a diet high in processed foods increase the risk of depression in adults?
Brown M, Kaplan B, Mounsey A, Evidence-Based Practice, 4/2019
A culture of understanding: reflections and suggestions from a genomics research community board
Kaplan B, et al, Progress in Community Health Partnerships, 7/17/2017
Life after stroke in an urban minority population: a photovoice project.
Balakrishnan R, Kaplan B, Negron R, Fei K, Goldfinger J, Horowitz C, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 3/11/2017
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Books/Book Chapters

Emotion in the Clinical Encounter
Chapter: Emotion Communication in the Clinical Encounter: a Trauma-informed Approach
Kaplan B, Somashekar G, Brown M, Godley B, Khan A, Ojo E, & Weil AEditors: R. Schwartz, J. A. Hall, L. G. Osterberg.McGraw-Hill Medical, New York2021

Lectures

Grand rounds: providing gender-affirming care - getting started and next steps
Holland Physician Hospital Organization / Michigan State University - 11/2022
Gender-affirming care: getting started
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine - 9/2022
Behind the lens: what digital photovoice can teach us about engaging complex care patients (workshop)
Society for General Internal Medicine (SGIM) Annual Meeting, Denver, CO - 4/2018

Other

Working the Polls: Voter suppression can be super banal. All you need is apathy.
Dharia H, Feldmah J, Hilmer G, Irons W, Kaplan B, Prickett SN, Shayevich B., n+1 Magazine
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/working-the-polls/
11/6/2020
Like Water, or Blood
Kaplan B, Health Humanities Journal
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill - 11/28/2019